Word: republican
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Margaret Marshall, formerly Harvard's General Counsel, is awaiting confirmation as the chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC). A liberal jurist nominated by a Republican governor, Marshall has wide respect and should be confirmed. But now, just as when she was originally nominated as an associate, she is embroiled in controversy...
...last night's speech, Ventura described how both the Republican and Democratic parties rallied against him and told voters he was "evil" when he ran for mayor of Brooklyn Park, Minn., and then, without blinking, courted him shamelessly after he won the election by a landslide...
While Ventura first stole the spotlight as a populist icon, he was catapulted to greater prominence earlier this month when Patrick J. Buchanan threatened to quit the Republican Party and run for president on the Reform Party's presidential ticket...
Bush should follow the lead of Senator McCain, another candidate for the Republican nomination, and bid Buchanan good luck with the Reform Party...
...than partisan posturing and legislative gamesmanship on an issue this vital," he said in a speech practically interchangeable with various proclamations on everything from the budget to campaign finance reform. "A bipartisan majority is poised to pass this bill, but now they are being blocked by legislative tactics." For Republican leaders, who insist it?s the Democrats, not them, who?ve tied cement blocks to the bill, the goal is to position HMO reform as close as possible to the business interests that support them most fervently. That means limiting lawsuits and capping damage awards. Democrats tend to prick their...